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dc.contributor.authorOrmazabal Zamakona, Javier ORCID
dc.contributor.authorRomero, Juan
dc.date.accessioned2012-12-10T16:10:04Z
dc.date.available2012-12-10T16:10:04Z
dc.date.issued2012-08
dc.identifier.citationLinguistic Inquiry 43(3) : 455-474 (2012)es
dc.identifier.issn0024-3892
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/9158
dc.description.abstract[EN]Bresnan and Nikitina (2009) and Rappaport Hovav and Levin (2008) show that, contrary to standard assumptions, fixed-theme idioms may appear in to-constructions under certain pragmatic circumstances. Bruening (2010a) contends that the cases they present are in fact R(ightward)-dative shifts, double object constructions with the object projected to the right. In this article, we argue that Bruening’s proposed theoretical apparatus is unnecessarily complex and ad hoc and falls short of explaining the main facts it is supposed to deal with, massively overgenerating. A regular PP structure is argued to be empirically more adequate and conceptually simpler, avoiding the main problems of the R-dative shift analysis. New empirical evidence concerning pairlist readings and scope freezing also suggests that the empirical facts about idioms should be reconsidered in completely different terms.es
dc.description.sponsorshipBasque Government (GIC07/144-IT-210-07, HM2008-1-10), Spanish government’s Ministry of Science and Development (FFI2008-04786 and FFI2011-29218) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) UFI-11/14.es
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherMassachusetts Institute of Technology Presses
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses
dc.subjectidiomsen
dc.subjectdouble object constructionsen
dc.subjectscope asymmetriesen
dc.subjectfrozen scopeen
dc.subjectdative alternationsen
dc.titlePPs without Disguises: Reply to Brueningen
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees
dc.rights.holder2012 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyes
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/LING_a_00098es
dc.departamentoesLingüística y estudios vascoses_ES
dc.departamentoeuHizkuntzalaritza eta euskal ikasketakes_ES
dc.subject.categoriaLINGUISTICS


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